I am sure the jackasses who left vandalism-by-association on her brand are throughly hated by every member of her organization. I will forgive a lot from the genius black woman who rescued US literature by making a book club.
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How many of the books were any good, though?
jul 7, 2025, 4:47 pm • 6 0 • view
Don't even care. If the philanthropy that built libraries is good, the cultural movement that gave people reason to go to libraries is better than good. I have zero interest in gatekeeping reading for entertainment.
jul 7, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
You know what, that's fair, and I'll acknowledge I'm being a snob.
jul 7, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Quite a lot of them, really. But the garbage ones are a lot more memorable as Oprah's Book Club selections because WTF?
jul 7, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I'll retract my criticism because I am willing to acknowledge I'm being an unfair snob. But I still first and foremost think of fucking James Frey.
jul 7, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Understandable. As I said, that's more memorable. The non-grifter stuff now stands on its own merits, while that ... well.... it was on Oprah.
jul 7, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Quite a few, surprisingly. Especially over time, she started doing more classics/challenging books instead of tragedy porn.
jul 7, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
"A Million Little Pieces"
jul 7, 2025, 4:49 pm • 18 0 • view
Yes! She went so hard for that book and then shat all over that dude. "She told more lies to the public times a thousand than I ever have."
jul 7, 2025, 4:54 pm • 16 0 • view
As depicted in this documentary footage
jul 7, 2025, 4:55 pm • 6 0 • view
Haven't seen it. Looks like a tv show made for entertainment that I watched a couple of years ago though.
jul 7, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Cool quip. Would you care to state openly what you're trying to say?
jul 7, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You make a fair point, Opes definitely has some good to go with a lot of bad... Billionaires, they're just like us!
jul 7, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view